Mercury is completely covered in craters. Any new craters will erase older craters leaving the crater density unchanged.

The ray pattern from the bright crater in the top left is a familiar sight. The Moon has similar rays. They are caused by the ejection of matter from an impact crater.

Credit for these wonderful images belongs to NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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